Reviews
Evil Has A Destiny
Posted on 03/19/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Halloween 2007 is Rob Zombie's much needed take on the Halloween franchise. Not really a sequel or a prequel this is more of a standalone interpretation of the life of Michael Myers.It follows the life of Michael from a mask obsessed child with a tendency to hurt animals through his fifteen years in...
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Six times the terror... Six times the fear... Six times the thrills...
Posted on 04/29/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
The Curse of Michael Myers is the sixth movie in the HalloweenJamie Lloyd Carruthers (this time played by JC Brandy) was kidnapped and taken to the cult of the man in black. This cult appears to be controlling Michael to fulfil some archaic prophecy to do with killing all of your family members to s...
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Let the Slaughter Begin
Posted on 04/11/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Hallows Eve: Slaughter on Second Street is an independent slasher movie written, directed and produced by PJ Starks and Rodney Newton utilizing only resources local to them, shooting the movie in their local community of Owensboro, Kentucky and making use of the local talent to be the victims of the...
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Don't go, we'll be good
Posted on 12/27/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Korean director Pil-Sung Yim's Hansel and Gretel (Henjel gwa Geuretel) is an incongruent mixture of horror and fantasy with dramatic fluctuations between the two genres. The relationship between this 2007 story and the Grimm 1812 story of the same name is very loose and it is more appropriate to say...
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The hills are alive with the sound of screaming
Posted on 09/15/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
It is a widely little known fact that, despite his reputation for cartoonishly character filled, violent and perverted movies, Takashi Miike is also a creator of children's films and a creator of period movies (as in the corset-cleavage filled movies set in a period of time... not the kind downloada...
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Hearts will bleed
Posted on 06/27/2011 by dpm74
Confession time. This film is, and has been for a while, a favourite of mine. With that in mind, I've tried to write this as if I was seeing it for the first time when it comes to the plot i.e. no spoilers or repeat viewing perception. Let's see how this works out...Haute Tension (or High Tension, o...
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An intense exercise in basic fear and dread
Posted on 10/03/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Director of Tetsuo, Shinya Tsukamoto, takes a diversion from body horror with Haze and instead attacks the consciousness with the concept of isolation and confined space horror and ups it to a level that makes The Descent seem like a quiet holiday retreat commercial for claustrophobics. Combine this...
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If you don't feed the Third World, they will come and feed on you!
Posted on 02/14/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Hell of the Living Dead is a bizarre zombie/cannibal movie crossed with a wildlife documentary also known as "Zombie Creeping Flesh", "Zombi 4", "Zombi 5" and "Virus" among other things, directed by Bruno Mattel. The story is set in the New Guinea jungle where a secret science facility called "Hope ...
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Fashion Hell
Posted on 11/20/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Just when the market for crazy Japanese splatter was about to become saturated beyond the help of even the most absorbent kitchen towels, Jun Tsugita added some unique originality to the sub-genre with the highly peculiar Horny House of Horror AKA Fashion Hell (Fasshon heru). Usually Tsugita stays a...
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When The Horseman comes, he brings his toolbox!
Posted on 06/23/2011 by The Zombie Mike
Christian is grieving following the complicated drug related death of his daughter. On receiving an anonymous video in the post, showing Jessie being mistreated, he sets out on a mission to get answers and take revenge. Using everyday tools from his trusty toolbox he tortures his way closer to the a...
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Life and Death are Meaningless...And Pain Is God
Posted on 03/18/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Rob Zombie's first major assault on horror viewers senses is 2003's House of 1000 corpses, and what a violent assault it is. Strangely this movie was dropped by MGM and Universal until finally getting a limited theatrical release by Lionsgate... and we're so glad it did. This movie is a truly twiste...
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Join the harvest
Posted on 08/22/2011 by Hellbound Heart
I've had mostly positive experiences with After Dark Films of late – although with at least one notable exception (*cough* The Task *cough*) so I had some hope for Husk (2011). After Dark may not be exactly re-inventing the wheel, but they generally have enough about them to turn out a decent horror...
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